WATCH: Human chain formed to rescue woman trapped during flooding in Ellicott City

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. - A moment of heroism was caught on camera during the devastating floods in Ellicott City, Maryland.

The video, taken by David Dempster, shows he and several other men forming a human chain to rescue a woman inside her car as it was being swept away in rushing flood water Saturday night.

"Since I was filming, I just had my camera in my left hand and I was at the back of the chain," Dempster told FOX 5. "And we were all just holding on, really secure. I was getting ready to pitch my camera and grab onto something if we started to slip."

The man at the front of the chain slipped into the flood water at one point before the men grasped hands.